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14. For weaned chicks on range (one thousand chicks to two acres). 

 Cracked corn, wheat, cracked bone, and oyster shell and grit, in separate slatted 

 troughs, in constant supply ; also, in separate trough, the following dry-mash 

 mixture : 



Parjs by 

 weight 



Wheat bran x 



Corn meal 2 



Middlings ! 



Beef scrap T 



This method of feeding has been found satisfactory under the conditions 

 described. The dry-mash mixture is too rich for general use, but the constant 

 supply of cracked corn and wheat, and the range conditions, enable the birds 

 to balance the ration : 



15. For laying hens. This is the ration first adopted at the Maine station 

 and published and widely adopted as a model ration. 



Parts by 

 weight 



Dry mash 2 



Wheat bran 



Corn meal , 



Middlings 



Gluten meal or brewer's grains , 



Linseed meal . , 



Beef scrap 



With this mash constantly before them the hens were fed, to each hundred 

 hens, early in the morning, 4 quarts of whole corn scattered from six to eight 

 inches deep in the litter, and at 10 A.M., 2 quarts of wheat and 2 quarts of oats 

 in the litter. 



The dry mash used was a very rich one for any combination, and far too 

 rich to be given with such limited hard-grain rations. In the flocks fed on this 

 ration at the station and elsewhere cases of indigestion were numerous, and 

 the mash has recently been modified. 



1 6. For pullets just off range. Hard grains as above; for the first month 

 (September) in the laying house, mash as follows : 



Parts by 

 weight 



Bran 3 



Corn meal " .. i 



Middlings i 



Meat scrap i 



For the second month (October) : P ar t s by 



weight 



Bran 2 



Corn meal . i 



Middlings i 



Gluten meal i 



Meat scrap . . . i 



